GoF: The Age Line

[davenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 132342

I'm reading GoF, and I can't figure out why no one speculates that a 
student who is "of age" simply threw Harry's name in.  Okay, so Moody 
says that they must have used a confundus charm to trick the GoF into 
picking four people, so it's less likely that it's  a student.  But 
isn't it possible that some 7th year Slytherin threw in Harry's name 
to put him in danger, and someone else, for their own reasons, tricked 
the GoF into picking a fourth person?  In fact, since Moody says that 
they must have put Harry's name in with a different school, I'm not 
sure a charm would have been needed.  But then, if they did that, I 
think it would show up on the piece of paper.

Regardless of how Harry's name was pulled, the Age Line itself seems 
like pretty shoddy security since ANY 17 yr old could have entered ANY 
other student into the contest!  Why didn't Fred & George just beg 
Angelina to throw their names in?  Why didn't Malfoy get a 7th year to 
put his name in?  This seems like a pretty sizeable hole in the story.

- davenclaw